ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,729, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Energy-efficient error-correction-detection storage" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), John E. Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Liji Gopalakrishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system employs an addressing scheme to logically divide rows of memory cells into separate contiguous regions, one for data storage and another for error detection and correction (EDC) codes corresponding to that data. Data and corresponding EDC codes are stored in the same row of the same bank. Accessing data and corresponding EDC...